COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION

CIA flights used Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick.

CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) is an American information technology and business services company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA.

CSC was involved in the CIA 'rendition' flights to secret CIA torture prisons.

CSC has been given the job of boosting UK border security.

(The Observer, 18 December 2011 Award of Border Agency work to CIA rendition firm.)

CSC has been awarded a number of UK contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

CSC won a contract with the UK Border Agency in 2007 to implement a UK visa involving biometrics.

CSC has had contracts with Royal Mail, UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) companies and the Civil Nuclear Police Authority.

CSC was involved in the National Health Services's disastrous IT programme.

A passenger jet contracted by the CIA via CSC passed frequently through British and Irish airports, including Shannon, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London Luton. Other locations included Guantánamo Bay, Kabul, Baghdad and Islamabad.

Credit Rating Downgrade: Computer Sciences Corporation

Amnesty tells us some of the bad things about Obama

Amnesty chief Kate Allen, on 26 April 2009, tells us some of the bad things about Obama

Amnesty chief: At the rate Obama is going, it will take us 65 years to close Guantanamo

According to Kate Allen:

1. More troops are being sent to Afghanistan.

2. Apart from Binyam Mohamed, not a single prisoner has been released from Guantanamo since Obama took office.

3. A Boeing subsidiary company illegally flew illegally detained people between prisons, as part of the CIA's 'extraordinary rendition' programme.

Former victims have tried to bring the Boeing company to book.

The Obama government has blocked all their attempts.

4. In April 2009, White House lawyers sought to stop more than 500 prisoners held at the US-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan from being able to challenge their indefinite detention - detention without charges or trials.

Several inmates have died in custody, apparently after sustained torture.

5. The danger now is of quiet reversal to Bush-era behaviour.

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